Evaluation in the Wild: A Distributed Cognition Perspective on Teacher Assessment
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Richard Halverson is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work aims to bring the research methods and practices of the Learning Sciences to the world of educational leadership by exploring how to access, document and communicate the practical wisdom of school leaders. Halverson1s research develops conceptual frameworks based on cognitive psychology and classical philosophy to capture the complexity, expertise and situated nature of leadership practice and seeks to communicate research findings through developing on-line, multimedia cases of practice.
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